Innovation and entrepreneurship are widely recognized as effective ways to revitalize the global economy. International markets seek new ideas and innovative business practices, which have the potential to strengthen and stabilize economic growth. So many regions, including China, are striving to develop entrepreneurial management practices and create supportive environments that foster and enable innovation.

Business schools are the origins of many successful entrepreneurship practices, and play a vital role in boosting development of economies and the prosperity of business. This requires the business education industry to reflect on questions such as how to nurture management talents who are able to generate new ideas and implement the ideas in innovative ways.

Therefore, the conference has established “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” as its theme. It is expected to foster discussions on the latest developments in innovation and entrepreneurship, and exchange viewpoints on two parallel session topics: “How Business Schools’ Innovation Education is Driving Sustainable Development” and “Business Schools’ Education about Entrepreneurship”.

In addition, the IBSSC features two pre-sessions on business schools’ development. Some changes in international accreditation standards indicate that the innovation and sustainability of business schools are increasingly recognized as priorities, so:

Pre-session 1 will focus on the topic of “New International Accreditation Standards for the New Management Education Era”, to discuss the trend and how business schools will respond to it.

Pre-session 2 will explore the topic of “Future of Management Education: Emerging Opportunities for Asian B-schools”.

The biennial IBSSC is one of the most important forums held by ACEM. Since the first successful conference in 2006, the IBSCC has itself become an international brand and the largest dean-level conference for business schools in the Asia-Pacific region.

An outstanding line up of speakers includes:

Prof. Peter Blair Henry, Dean of Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, USA

The conference convenes more than 100 deans/general directors from overseas business schools, and 100 local Chinese business school deans, who exchange their ideas on cutting-edge topics in the field of management education. Due to its focused themes, global scale and western and eastern integration, the IBSSC has already become an extremely valuable forum for business schools around world, and Antai is committed to developing the IBSSC into the most influential management forum in the international management education circle.

Who should attend?Deans, Directors, Rectors and Vice Deans from leading business schools in the world; top executives from international organizations in the business education industry.

For more information about the conference and reserving your seats, please refer to the website http://www.acem.sjtu.edu.cn/intl/conferences/5_en/index.html, or contact Antai College of Economics and Management via Tel: +86-21-52302510; Fax: +86-21-52302511; Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.